CompletedNo phase
HEARS-SLP: Providing SLP-Delivered Hearing Health Care to Individuals With Cognitive Impairment
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Johns Hopkins University
- Where
- Baltimore, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 77 people enrolled
- Started
- 15 Dec 2023
- Ended
- 24 Feb 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets a placebo (a dummy treatment), for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- HEARS-SLP device
- HEARS-SLP program
- Record updated
- 27 February 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 60 years to 100 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age 60 - 100 years old
- English-speaking
- Lives at home
- Diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's Disease or other related dementia according to the core clinical criteria outlined in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Alzheimer's Association Guidelines
- Availability of caregiver/study partner to participate in all study-related visits and who provides ≥8 hours of weekly oversight/care
- Speech frequency pure tone average (0.5- 4 kHz) >25 db in the better-hearing ear; adult onset hearing loss
- Stable (for 2 weeks or longer) dosing of medication (e.g. antidepressants, antipsychotics) for neuropsychiatric symptoms
Who cannot take part
- Current self-reported use of hearing aid or amplification device
- Medical contraindication to use hearing aids ( e.g. draining ears)
- Inability to participate in the 1-month follow up
Where in United States
- Johns Hopkins MedicineBaltimore, United StatesNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Building upon the HEARS audiologist-community health worker (CHW) model, this study intervention will be delivered by a speech-language pathologist (SLP). The primary objective of the study is to develop and test an affordable and accessible hearing rehabilitative intervention that will be delivered by a SLP to individuals with cognitive impairment.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Immediate treatmentTreatment being tested
Treatment: HEARS-SLP device and HEARS-SLP program
- Delayed treatmentPlacebo, for comparison
1 month delayed treatment
Treatment: HEARS-SLP device and HEARS-SLP program
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- HEARS-SLP: Providing Speech Language Pathologist-Delivered Hearing Health Care to Individuals With Cognitive Impairment
- Record updated
- 27 February 2026